What’s New in iOS 9.3

With this update your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch gain improvements to Notes, News, Health, Apple Music and a new feature called Night Shift that may even help you get a better night’s sleep by shifting the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum at night.

New features, improvements, and bug fixes include:

Night Shift

When enabled, Night Shift uses your iOS device’s clock and geolocation to determine when it’s sunset in your location, then it automatically shifts the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum and may even help you get a better night’s sleep.

Notes improvements

Protect notes that contain your most personal data with Touch ID or a passcode

Sort notes alphabetically, by date created, or by date edited

When sketching, quickly bring up a fresh canvas with a two finger swipe, or by tapping the New Sketch button

A new checklist button at the bottom of every note makes it easier to create lists

Show thumbnails instead of large images and attachments by long-pressing on any image or attachment in a note

Choose whether photos and videos taken within Notes are stored only in Notes, or also added to Photos

Long-press on an Evernote Export file to import its contents into Notes

News improvements

New Top Stories section in For You highlights the most important stories of the day

Discover something great to read in Editors’ Picks, a selection of channels and topics handpicked by our Apple News editors

Swipe left on stories in For You on iPhone to quickly share or save or swipe right for more options

Play video stories right from For You — without opening the article

Read stories and watch videos in landscape orientation on iPhone

Change the text size in articles to make reading easier

Health improvements

Related third-party apps for select data types such as weight, workouts and sleep are displayed in the Health app

Health dashboard adds support for move, exercise, and stand Activity data and goals from Apple Watch

Easy access to Dashboard and Medical ID using 3D Touch Quick Actions from the Home screen

Third-party apps now have access to Activity rings and summaries from Apple Watch through HealthKit

Apple Music improvements

Add songs from the Apple Music catalog to playlists without having to add them to your library

Watch music videos on iPad in full screen

See what’s playing on Beats 1 directly from the Radio tab — without having to tune in

Tap the name of the currently playing song in Now Playing to go to the album

See which songs are most popular on albums in the Apple Music catalog

Photos improvements

Extract the still image from a Live Photo by tapping Duplicate which will give you the option to duplicate the Live Photo, or just the still image

Improved download performance of full size original photos or videos stored in iCloud Photo Library

Share Live Photos between iOS and OS X through AirDrop and Messages

iBooks improvements

Adds the ability for iBooks to store your PDFs in iCloud, making them available across all of your devices

Adds support for downloading previously purchased audiobooks from the iBooks Store

Adds the ability to share your audiobook purchases with any of your family members using Family Sharing

New controls for reading Manga more comfortably with faster page turns and simple controls for enlarging text

Adds Apple Pencil support to highlight and save your favorite passages for later

Education improvements

Introduces a preview of Shared iPad that enables multiple students to use the same iPad at different times throughout the day

Adds support for signing into iCloud with Managed Apple IDs

Adds compatibility for the new Classroom app

New configuration options to control the organization of apps on the Home Screen

New controls to determine which apps to show or hide on the Home Screen

Adds support for new restrictions for iCloud Photo Library and Apple Music

CarPlay improvements

Apple Music members now have access to their For You and New content in CarPlay

New Nearby screen in Maps to quickly find Gas, Parking, Restaurants, Coffee, and other driving essentials

Siri speaks more concisely when reading back and composing messages in CarPlay

Equalized sound levels between different audio sources in CarPlay

Dolby Digital Plus

Adds support for playing video encoded with Dolby Digital Plus audio streams with support for multichannel output using the Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter

Hardware keyboard improvements and fixes

Enables the use of arrow keys to navigate through lists in Spotlight, Mail and Safari

Enables the use of space bar to scroll in Mail

Improves performance when using the space bar to scroll in Safari

Adds the ability to bring up the software keyboard from the Shortcut Bar when a hardware keyboard is connected

Fixes an issue that could prevent unlocking an iPad using the hardware keyboard

Fixes an issue that caused hardware keyboards to become unresponsive in captive login pages

Fixes an issue that could cause the Messages input field to disappear behind the Shortcut Bar when connected to a hardware keyboard

Other improvements

Maps adds support for getting a highlighted view of destinations and stops for a specific transit line by tapping on it

Maps now displays whether there are multiple transit line options for each route suggestion

Wallet app adds the ability to view the app related to a card or pass in the Wallet app by tapping an icon on the card or pass

Apple Pay adds support for signing up for store rewards programs with Apple Pay at point of sale terminal

Podcasts adds support for fullscreen video playback

Activity app adds a new Workout tab with monthly summaries of key metrics and the ability to filter by workout type

Move to iOS now offers app suggestions from the App Store based on apps installed on your Android device

iCloud Storage adds proactive status information and in-app notifications to let you know before you run out of space

Two-factor authentication is now available for all iCloud accounts

Support for Spanish (Latin America) system language

Siri support for Finnish (Finland), Hebrew (Israel), and Malay (Malaysia)

Enterprise bug fixes

Resolves an issue that could prevent some VPP purchased apps from launching after being updated

Adds iCloud backup support for device-assigned VPP apps

Addresses an issue that could prevent certificates from installing correctly when updating configuration profiles

Fixes an issue for some IPSec VPN configurations that could cause the internet connection to be interrupted after a VPN session was ended

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What’s New in iOS 9.3.1

According to Apple, this update fixes an issue that caused apps to be unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari and other apps. For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222